This might be fun. You all know the different types of nursing students you go to school with. For instance:
The guy student who has the palm pilot with all the latest programs, which he plays with for hours on end, fanny pack, scissors of varying sizes, hemostats, and all kinds of gizmos attached to his pack. Always this type wants to work in the ICU's or ER upon graduation, wants to be where the ACTION is!
There's the beauty queen, full face make up, eyes made up like a cats, always dressed to the 9's even in scrubs or that awful school smock you may have to wear, every curl neatly in place, perfect lips. Looking for that MD to replace her RN upon graduation.
The studious student. In her/his back pack are not one, not two, but at least 4 - 1500 page nursing testbooks, at least 2 tape recorders and multiple notebooks. Sits in the front row but no one really knows her/him, disappears after classes.
What about the student who cannot fathom why they failed our maternity exam b/c after all, "I have three kids." This person then goes on to call our entire clinical group "dumb".....uh, we didn't fail the maternity exams.... :angryfire
I admit to being the perfectly made up/hair done student at 6am! (I also don't want to marry a doc.) Although being the poor nursing student I am, my wardrobe consists of scrubs and sweat pants!
Specializes in Float Pool, ICU/CCU, Med/Surg, Onc, Tele.
I *so* do not understand you morning people. Do NOT try to wake me up in the morning, regardless of how much sleep I got the night before. I'm one of those people who needs a minimum of 8 hours sleep a night, but it never seems to matter much in the morning... I hate getting out of bed. I wonder whether or not people I work with know that though, because I always try to perk myself up with hair & makeup before work. By the time I get there, I'm wide awake and look great, but I sure do dread leaving my nice warm cuvvies, lol.
I am a morning person that is all made up just because we start clinicals at 7:00a.m. and on the days I work, I have to be there at 5:00a.m., so A clinical day is like sleeeping in for me, but if you would see me at work at 5:00a.m. it is a whole different ball game.
We have the guy who flunked out first semester at our program x amount of semesters ago, and went to a different program and passed the first semester but failed the second, and now he is back at our program again repeating the second semester. This guy never takes notes, told a patient in same day surgery that he was going to get an I.V. so that his veins would not collapse, but he got a 92% on our last exam. I wouldn't even let this guy take my radial pulse!
We have the girsl who's father is a doctor and thinks she can come to EVERY class 15 minutes late and then has the gull to go to the bathroom and freshen up her makeup. She even missed the standarized test that we had to take.
Then we have the people that I would trust with my life. They know all the material, are excellent communicators, and could do any skill in the book but still can't pass an exam. Breaks my heart because I study with some of them and they know the material front and back.
Then my favorite is the LPN student that tested out of first semester (not all the LPN's just this one) who won't even let the the instructors talk because she already know's this and can't seem to pass an exam. She's the one that constantly states "In LPN school we learned that....", and "in the real worl you would....", and "I have been a nurse for three years and I never....".
Oh I forgot about the brown nosers that if an instructor would stop their whole head would literally dissapear. I am very respectful and appropriate around all of my instructors, but in the end if you end up with a 74.9999999% you still wount pass no matter whos a$$ you kissed and for how long so whats the point?
Okay, the one that really gets to me is the girl who thinks she knows EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING. I don't even like speaking in the same room she is in, because no matter what you are talking about she already knows everything about it. And she's nosy...so if you ARE talking, she asks what you are talking about...even if it is none of her business. I mean, she is so bad, that she was arguing about how a class goes with the students in the semester BEFORE us who had just finished it! ARRGGHH....can you tell, she really gets to me.
Then we have the student who works 2 jobs, doesn't read anything or study her notes, and still manages to get A's. (I am not jealous...I study my butt of and get the A's I deserve..I just can't figure out how she does it!)
We have one of those guys who has all the latest gadgets, too. But, this one, he talks to EVERYONE, knows absolutely EVERYONE, and is doing everything. I wish I could be like him!! He set us up a web group, too...and he is so friendly, as well.
We have a lady in the process of divorcing her husband and moving back in with her parents who knows everything. She absorbs information so well it makes us wonder sometimes. She has straight A's and will most likely continue to do so even though she's under soooooo much stress. Oh, did I also mention that it takes her *20 MINUTES* to do a 100 question exam?!? and she passes!! We asked what her secret was and she said that she "reads fast." WOW!!!!
Specializes in Float Pool, ICU/CCU, Med/Surg, Onc, Tele.
Ah yes, the Rapid Tester. Can you believe how fast some of these people are??? We have one too. I've always been fairly fast, usually because I know the material and don't have to vacillate between answers, but Omigoodness this gal is SPEEDY. And SMART. Was accepted to med school prior to choosing nursing... now married & pregnant, and I'm betting big bucks she'll be back in class within 2 days of delivery. We'll all insist she bring the baby to class every day for us to cuddle during lecture, of course! This gal ROCKS.
We have a lady in the process of divorcing her husband and moving back in with her parents who knows everything. She absorbs information so well it makes us wonder sometimes. She has straight A's and will most likely continue to do so even though she's under soooooo much stress. Oh, did I also mention that it takes her *20 MINUTES* to do a 100 question exam?!? and she passes!! We asked what her secret was and she said that she "reads fast." WOW!!!!
now, that would be me... i was always the first to leave exams... when i wrote my registration, it freaked a lot of people out... i was done at least 30 minutes before anyone else...
Ah, yes, the speed reader, they always amazed me too. I was always the analyzer, looking for the ways they were trying to trick me with those questions that had 4 correct answers. :chuckle I always envied those who could just whip through the exams. Sighhhhhhh. I took the NCLEX with one of my study-buddies that got through 75 questions in under 50 minutes. By the time I got out, finishing with same number 75, he had already left the test center, bought us coffee and danish, come back, had smoked half-pack of cigarettes and was nearly asleep in the car when I walked out the door. You gotta love em. :rotfl:
How about the girl you want to hate because she has it all, but you can't because she is so dang nice? She's got a great husband and children, beautiful home, smart as a whip, no worries about money. Yet, she is the one to call and check on a student who was not in class, always has a nice word to say to everyone, makes her rounds in class saying hi to each student, and hosts the best class parties. You would love to hate her, but you just can't bring yourself to do it. When it comes right down to it, you would love to be as nice as her.
Someone mentioned the charmer? Yeah, we've got one of those. Sad thing is, everyone knows what he is all about, yet he's got you charmed as well. So you continue to help him out, all the while knowing that you fell victim to his wily ways.
This is fun to read, but it scares me that I will know the other 99 students in my class well enough to write posts like this...I thought I only knew my family that well! I can see what I'm in for...
OK I'm The Class Mom. First week of school I gathered names & contact info, typed up, & handed out an "address book" for the class... complete with thumbnail photos so we'd remember who we all were by our faces before we knew names! I also typed up & distributed the class schedule in a more user-friendly format than the faculty gave us, created a group website just for the students in our class, and uploaded about 100 bookmarks on various websites (mostly gleaned from AllNurses threads) helpful to nursing students. :chuckle
Actually, this is a fabulous idea! I think it's wonderful that you took the time and wish you were going to be in my class!
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What about the student who cannot fathom why they failed our maternity exam b/c after all, "I have three kids." This person then goes on to call our entire clinical group "dumb".....uh, we didn't fail the maternity exams.... :angryfire
I admit to being the perfectly made up/hair done student at 6am! (I also don't want to marry a doc.) Although being the poor nursing student I am, my wardrobe consists of scrubs and sweat pants!